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Social Media (Trends and implications for learning) Seminar Series by George Siemens and David Cormier

"The problem is not that schools will refuse to adopt the new media/technology. My greater fear is that they will adopt it. "

I'm still thinking about that UCLA research saying "technology in the classroom damages literacy and critical thinking." I'm still thinking it's behind the times, in its framing of technology as "video games and TV," and its complete omission of the Web and the social media/Web 2.0 explosion over the last five years or so.

Living and learning with new media: summary of findings from the digital youth project

Where do people find the time? Clay Shirky speaks for about 20 minutes on the societal shift from media consumption to consumption + production + sharing. Note Giligan's Island & 'Looking for mouse' in part 2

Here's a tool for embedding a tweet into a blog post. Sue Waters provides instructions for use here: http://theedublogger.com/2010/05/06/hot-to-easily-embed-your-favorite-tweets-into-blog-posts/

At one point Ian summarises the differences between Native Learners and Teachers. I think this is analogous with Prensky's "Digital native and Digital immigrants".

Article talks about how the culture of Web2.0 changes expectations or is at odds with the status quo of the system.